Introduction or ‘What is statistics?’

C. Mack
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C. Mack: Institute of Technology, Applied Mathematics

Chapter 1 in Essentials of Statistics for Scientists and Technologists, 1966, pp 1-2 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Often the best way to understand a subject is to trace its historical development and, pursuing this policy, we note that the word ‘statist’ first appeared in the English language while Shakespeare was a young man (c. 1584). It meant ‘a person knowledgeable in state affairs’ as might be inferred from the quotation above.

Keywords: Historical Development; English Language; Vital Statistic; Agricultural Experiment; Wheat Yield (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1966
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-8615-9_1

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